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MIAMI — Hurricane Polo exploded into an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm off the southwestern coast of Mexico on Tuesday, capping one of the fastest intensification bursts ever recorded in the eastern Pacific, and is expected to rake the coastline…
One of North America’s most famous Ice Age predators has just lost its name — and its identity turned out to be far more interesting. The extinct “American cheetah,” long imagined as a faster, bigger cousin of the African cheetah,…
Bats have a strange superpower, and it is not echolocation. Some bats live for decades — extraordinarily long for their size — while rarely getting cancer. New research suggests they pull this off by combining two strategies: powerful immune defenses…
Scientists have found a feather in one of the least glamorous places imaginable: inside a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop, 66 million years old. And this strange little time capsule may help answer one of the biggest questions in natural…